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...Johnson is to prove that he can do deep as well as droll. In a revealing jest about his party's candidate for mayor, Tory leader David Cameron recently remarked: "Inside Boris there is a serious, ambitious politician fighting to get out." The London election next May will pit Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is now promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed his own manifesto, but speaks of increased "financial rigor...
Kevin Rudd took on what appeared to be an unenviable challenge when he became leader of the Australian Labor Party in December last year. It was to sell himself to the Australian people in time for an election - due within a year - that would pit him against Prime Minister John Howard, who, after a decade in office, had come to be regarded by many, including himself, as the natural leader of the country...
...depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall--with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" he says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final construction season pummeled by 134 straight days...
...scholastic attainments,” “success in sports,” and a commitment to service, morality and leadership. Blattler, a resident of Brookline, Mass., has a resume that includes a Harvard record and an Ivy League championship in pole vaulting, a place in the pit orchestra playing violin for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” and summer research trips to Namibia for her concentration, earth and planetary sciences. “I do get sleep,” she said. “I manage to balance everything...
...depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall - with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" Smit says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final construction season pummeled by 134 straight days...